However, the film's strengths far outweigh the handful of negatives that are often used to beat it up with. The Towering Inferno is far from flawless, it contains some cheese sodden dialogue, and the film's running time doesn't quite do the film any favours. Splitting the cost down the middle, The Towering Inferno was born and went on to make over $100 million across the globe, a very impressive take for its time, and certainly a shot in the arm for disaster genre enthusiasts. Enter producer Irwin Allen who smartly suggested that both studios should come together and produce one blockbusting genre defining film. Warner Brothers & 20th Century Fox were both keen to cash in on the success of 1972s The Poseidon Adventure, Warner's buying the rights to The Tower, and Fox buying the rights to The Glass Inferno, both novels about burning skyscrapers and seemingly ripe for a big screen adaptation. Reviewed by Spikeopath 9 / 10 The crowning glory of a much maligned genre.Ī newly built state of the art high-rise is hosting a big society gathering when a fire starts up on the 81st floor. When the fire begins, Michael O'Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground. He goes to the party that night concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that the building continues to develop short circuits. Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper.
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